The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it. - William Styron - Quotesmemo.com

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William Styron

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.

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Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

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What this country needs. . . what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terrible I mean, son, so that when the people have been through hellfire and the crucible, and have suffered agony enough and grief, they’ll be people again, human beings, not a bunch of smug contented cows rooting at the trough.

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The writer's duty is to keep on writing.

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The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.

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